1. O you unrivaled in wit and affability,

    who has never chosen to forget the pledge:

  2. What is a name whose two thirds became mine, together with its third,

    yet I never had it to myself among people?

  3. In its heart is an inclination, yet it has no heart

    that it might incline; nor has it inclined as people do.

  4. And often the riders have journeyed with it,

    weary, some on camels and some on horses.

  5. So answer if you have traveled through it, or else stop;

    there is no harm in your stopping for a while.

  6. Indeed, I have mentioned it: the question is its answer;

    there is no confusion or ambiguity in it.

Sol 6.1